1 Hit Wonders Of The 80's

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Lipps, Inc.-Funkytown
Gary Numan - Cars
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Devo - Whip It
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Toni Basil - Mickey
Thomas Dolby- She Blinded Me With Science
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Big Country - In a Big Country
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
 

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Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) - Icicle Works
Welcome to the Boomtown - David & David
Don't Close Your Eyes - Kix
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Wait For You - Bonham

Makes my memory water.


David and David - Boomtown is one of the best one hit wonder tunes ever made. It is absolutely brilliant!
 

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I'm pretty sure these are one-hit wonders:

Ah Leah! - Donny Iris
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
This Burning Heart - Vandenburg
Last Chance - Shooting Star
Eyes of a Stranger - Tha Payolas
She Talks in Stereo - Gary Myrik
Send Me An Angel - Real Life
Promises Promises - Naked Eyes
My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew
Heart and Soul - T 'Pau
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
 
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While these "one-hit wonders" may not have actually charted, they were played in abundance on The World Famous 106.7 KROQ here in Los Angeles.

Almost all are found on 80's New Wave compilation cds.



AEIOU - Ebn-Ozn

Are You Ready For The Sex Girls - Gleaming Spires

Belly of the Whale - Burning Sensations

Blowing Up Detroit - John Palumbo

Boogie in Your Butt - Eddie Murphy (that's right!) :eek:hyeah:

Break Them Down - Graham Parker

Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss

Buffy Come Back - Angel & The Reruns

Burning Flame - Vitamin Z

Butterfly Wings - Machines of Loving Grace

CA Plan Por Mio - Plastic Bertrand

Compulsion - Martin L. Gore

Daddy's Coming Home - Walk The Moon

Dancing In Heaven - Q Feel

Der Kommissar - Falco

Don Quichotte - Magazine 60

Drop Your Pants - Hilary

Dwarf Tossin' - Bouquet of Veal

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails

Everything Thing I'm Not - Translator

Flaming Desire - Bill Nelson

Hanging on a Heart Attack - Device

Hey St. Peter - Flash and the Pan

Homicide - 999

Homosapien - Pete Shelley

How Can a Laboring Man Find Time For Self-Culture - Martini Ranch

I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo

I Could Be Good For You - 707

I See Red - The Silencers

I'm an Adult Now - The Pursuit of Happiness

I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You - Tonio K

Jane's Getting Serious - John Astley

Jennifer She Said - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime In) - The Flirts

Just a Gigalo - Barbie and the Kens

Just Got Lucky - Jo Boxers

Lawnchairs - Our Daughter's Wedding

Living in a Box - Living in a Box

Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange

Love and Lonliness - The Motors

Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Nemesis - Shreikback

Numbers with Wings - The Bongos

Marina Men - The Valley Girls

Music For Boys - The Suburbans

Pajama Party - Unit 3 With Venus

Quit - The Waitresses

Sidewalk Talk - Jellybean

Slang Teacher - Wide Boy Awake

Ronnie's Song - LAX

See You on the Other Side - Brian Briggs

Slippin' Away - Dave Edmunds

Smoke Two Joints - The Toyes

Stick to the Grind - King Cotton

Stop This Car - The Woodentops

Swear - Tim Scott

Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage - Killer Pussy

The Fanatic - Felony

The Great Commandment - Camoulflage

Too Young To Date - D-Day

Walk With an Erection - Swinging Erudites

Working With Fire and Steel - China Crisis

Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw

Wot - Captain Sensible

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I'm pretty sure these are one-hit wonders:

Ah Leah! - Donny Iris
Aldo Nova - Fantasy

This Burning Heart - Vandenburg
Last Chance - Shooting Star
Eyes of a Stranger - Tha Payolas
She Talks in Stereo - Gary Myrik
Send Me An Angel - Real Life
Promises Promises - Naked Eyes
My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight - Cutting Crew
Heart and Soul - T 'Pau
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

I remember those songs, but your massive KROQ list I don't know any of them...;)
 

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